an acquaintance just sent me this article and i found myself wondering why he fails to talk about the other drivers that makes one do
one's own thing. the diy movement itself is a protest against big
corporations, over consumption, waste and our throw away culture. it is a
generation trying to find a way to push back up against mass media's
brainwashing and corporate dictatorship of our culture and is also
perhaps a path to self sufficiency with less dependence on the big. it
is a backlash against our current mode of over consumption and is most
certainly a movement (with more and more mainstream participation e.g.
occupy).
his lack of acknowledgement of it and failure to even mention
these drivers is odd. i mean, beyond the organics and dyi small biz
climate it is a huge amount of protest/fight/anger/sadness against a
culture that does not value the products it creates and in fact works to
create disposable throw away goods at huge costs to our society.
but
yes these folks tend to be nice about it and perhaps it does have to do
a bit with the fact that it is a business they are cultivating. it is
the dawning or birth of the small business that WANTS to stay the small
business. it is an age that celebrates the small business.
Here is a new shirt i added today. a friend suggested this verbiage as a sign. i took his slogan and made it into a tee. i think it accurately defines the participants in the occupy movement and it is not a bad thing.

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Mutterings of a mom to a relentlessly oppositional tween and a maniacal 7-year-old boy. Owner of a an online baby clothes business and designer of the Tender Wondersuit. Interwoven in said mutterings are product reviews and talk of creative, unsound business practices. Read at your own risk.